Carson criticizes Chicago leaders for delayed video release

But they hope to get more traction with renewed attention on police shootings after the release of video from past year that shows a black teenager fatally shot by a white officer.

Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson is campaigning in Chicago Thursday.

The protesters continue to call for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation. “We’re exhausted of the systemic racism in Chicago and something needs to be done about it”, a Rush University student said.

“I would like to see not only the mayor, but really officials at all levels of government, talking to community members in a much more open and earnest way”, Gandhi said.

“We’re here today because there’s a problem in the city of Chicago when an officer who has sworn to serve and protect can gun down a citizen for no other reason than he was black”, added Hunter, who said McDonald was a “big boy, but he was a teddy bear”. The time stamps on the videos from the five CPD vehicles appear to be in sync, and the time stamp on the video that captures the sheriff’s officer indicates he is there within one minute after McDonald is shot.

About 80 people carrying banners and signs were marching around Chicago’s City Hall on Friday afternoon. Murphy was not listening to Chicago police radio traffic but saw several Chicago police cars race by on Archer Avenue and joined in to help, Smith said. Days of protests and marches followed, including one on the busiest shopping day of the year that partially shut down the city’s most famous shopping district, Michigan Avenue.

Since the video’s release, McDonald’s death became another example in the current debate over gun violence and treatment of African-Americans by the police.

McDonald was shot 16 times in October 2014 by police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is charged with first-degree murder. Many residents, already suspicious that the circumstances of the shooting had been covered up by police, grew even more skeptical when the city released other squad vehicle dashcam videos from the scene that, like the first, lacked audio.

Although Emanuel apologized publicly for the McDonald shooting, there have been continuous protests since the footage was released, contesting that the police attempted to cover up the incident.

The emails are dated December 8, 2014 – less than two months after Van Dyke killed McDonald, nearly two months before Election Day in 2015, and almost a full year before charges were finally filed against Van Dyke. But on Friday, one of their attorneys, Jeffrey Neslund, said the city understood that if Van Dyke was not charged that he and attorney Michael Robbins would release the video that they had obtained as part of their legal work for the family. Alvarez blamed the delay on the complexities of investigating a police shooting.

Emanuel, a former congressman and chief of staff to President Barack Obama, has come under fire for his handling of the city’s police force, which the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday would be subject to a federal investigation.